How PR ‘completely transformed’ New Zealand politics: Metiria Turei, Green Party co-leader
Metiria Turei, Green party Co-leader. Photo credit: New Zealand Tertiary Education Union used under Creative Commons license: In 1996, New Zealand introduced the Mixed Member Proportion (MMP) voting system…
The case for Progressive Alliances
Photo credit: flickr user Matito under Creative Commons license In 2020 or sooner, the Conservative Party will win the next general election with an increased majority. It will be…
The case against ‘Progressive’ Alliances
It’s taken a while for me to get around to writing this piece. It could probably have been written at just about any point since the 2015 General Election,…
From climate change to child poverty – it all comes back to electoral reform
Come and sit with me on this sad little bench if you’re one of the 1,134,742 people who voted for a Green candidate in this year’s general election, but have…
5 reasons the Greens should work with UKIP for electoral reform
Politics has changed a lot since the 2011 AV referendum. We need real PR. (CC lewishamdreamer, flickr) It probably sounds like heresy in Green circles, but hear me out. The…
A dog’s dinner?
In publishing his proposals for Lords Reform, our Deputy PM invited constructive criticism of the proposals. He didn’t get it. Rather, he got a chorus of abuse from both the…
Liberal Democrats vote against PR
If you ever had any trouble understanding what the Liberal Democrats stood for, one thing was always certain: the Lib Dems are for PR. The Liberal Democrats, it may charitably…
Conference so far…
The weekend of conference so far has been pretty packed - motions, workshops, plenaries, etc. The theme for Saturday was essentially cuts and credit crunch. In the morning, the party…